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ZCHRONICLES 1.1
CHAOS MAGICK, AN INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS
Chaos Magick: Magickal Terrorism by Marik
Chaos, Chaos Myths, and Sorcery
Excerpts from Chaos:The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism by
Hakim Bey
Some Definitions from the a.m.c faq
The 12 Principles of Chaos
The Z(Cluster)
The Z Manifesto
Questions and Answers on the Z(Cluster)
Chaos Online
About the Editor
Anti-copyright, 1995. May be freely pirated & quoted--
the author & publisher, however, would like to be informed at:
marik@aol.com
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Chaos Magick: Magickal Terrorism
The practice of magick is generally agreed to be the attempt to create
change in conformity with the will of the magician. This change can
range from a simple acquisition, such as creating circumstances
favorable to getting a job, to the highly metaphysical, such as
conversing with the angelic entities of the Elizabethan magus John
Dee. Chaos magick, the most recent development in the Ceremonial
Magickal Tradition, is an innovative, modern, and disturbing approach
to the realization of the Magickal Intention.
Chaos Magick derives primarily from the work of Austin Osman Spare
and Peter Carroll in the first and third quarters of the 20th Century
respectively. Both magicians aggressively argued against the
exclusion of sorcerous techniques from magickal practice and both
developed systems of magick that were inclusive, eclectic and
innovative. Both generally spurned traditional magick as needlessly
complicated, discriminatory, and impotent. Spare, being an artist,
was clearly influenced by other magickal artists such as William
Blake, and was also influenced by the relatively new field of
psychiatry, particularly by the work of Jung and Freud on the
subconscious. Spare stressed the integration of magick into all areas
of his life, and so it is not possible, in examining Spare’s drawings,
for example, to distinguish between them and magickal work. Spare’s
drawings are spells. Spare’s work is mostly out of print. Some of his
writings are available online. Carroll, writing soon after the
development of Chaos Scientific Theory, was equally influenced by
the possibilities of using the language and tools of magick as a means
to discover and influence the subatomic interactions of the quantum
universe. Carroll also founded the Illuminati of Thanateros (the IOT),
an Order of Chaos Magicians. The Order is somewhat controversial in
the greater community of Chaos magicians since it is a secretive
degreed hierarchy. Secrets, degrees, and hierarchies are often
considered to run counter to the Chaos current. Carroll’s introductory
work “Liber Null and Psychonaut” is the most widely available work
on Chaos Magick. It remains in print. More recently the ideas of Chaos
Magick have been extended further into art by Jan Fries, whose
brilliant and friendly excursion into drawing, “Visual Magick”, is,
unfortunately, only available in England. Stephen Mace has privately
printed fascinating analyses of the interface between demonology and
Chaos Magick, “Stealing the Fire from Heaven” being the most widely
read. Phil Hine has published pamphlets on Chaos Magick and the
Necronomicon. Finally seminal forays into the application of Chaos
Magick to social dynamics and communications theory by Hakim Bey
have recently extended the theories of Chaos Magick into music,
performance art and the Internet.
In more general terms Chaos Magick uses the deconstructionist
theories of Jacques Derrida, the interest in random phenomena of John
Cage and Minimalism, and the humor of Dada to create ritual spaces
for magickal acts. To view Chaos Magick solely as a reformulation of
traditional magick, however, would be inaccurate. Chaos Magick is
something new, an attempt to deconstruct consensual belief
structures, free the energy trapped by these beliefs, and radically
alter the movement of the quantum flux. Chaos Magick is an assault
on normative belief patterns, an attack on the mind’s status quo,
guerrilla war on the careful considerations of consciousness.
Chaos Magick focuses on the mechanism of belief, and suggests that
the process of belief rather than the object of belief is the critical
element in magick. Chaos Magicians will adopt or refute positions of
belief as needed for the successful resolution of magickal acts. This
orientation, which stresses adaptability as a prime asset and greets
change as an accurate reflection of the true nature of reality can be
extremely destabilizing for individuals whose sense of personal
identity requires that the universe be perceived as an ordered and
meaningful place. Chaos Magick specifically refutes the possibility
of eternal rest, of eternal order. It views the universe as a
phenomena of complexity at an order of magnitude too great for
normal human psychology to understand. In fact, Chaos Magicians
would argue that the universe is in such a state of flux and apparently
random movement that only devious techniques such as those of
Chaos Magick, which deliberately subvert the conscious, rational mind
have any chance of creating change in conformity with the will of the
magician.
Chaos Magick is self-annihilating, bearing commonality with the
crazy wisdom of the fringe elements of the nyingmapa school of
Tibetan Buddhism, with the mad monks of Zen Buddhism, and with the
theoretical structures of Nagarjuna and the Madhyamaka schools of
Buddhism. One of the two central Sutras (Buddhist teachings) of
Madhyamaka is the Prajna Paramita, a Sutra whose title is loosely
translated as “ Beyond the beyond, there lies awakening”, and whose
structure, in which form and emptiness (Chaos and Order) are
identified with one another, resembles that of contemporary chaos
ritual. The founder of the nyingmapa school of Tibetan Buddhism was
the sorcerer-buddha Padmasambhava, and some of the rituals, such as
the graveyard rituals of Chod practice, are hardly distinguishable
from the Chaos magician’s use of the Eldar Gods of the Necronomicon.
The koans of Zen Buddhism are designed to short circuit the
discursive mind and bring about a state of mind similar to that sought
by the Chaos magician.
Chaos Magick can be considered to be a psychological approach to
magickal ritual. Bearing many similarities to the Stanislavsky
system of Method Acting,the ritual systems of Chaos Magick aim at
blocking the conscious mind and generating a state of consciousness
known as “gnosis”, a state of mind in which the defenses of the
discursive mind are overthrown and the magickal intention of the
magician can be driven deep into the Absolute, that is to say into the
quantum flux of the universe. Like Method Actors, Chaos Magicians
seek to forget their identity in order to achieve their will, the change
in the universe that is the goal of the magickal act. To do this Chaos
Magicians use gesture, ritual, sound, visualization, the cues of their
senses, meditation,and generated emotional states such as anger,
fear, disgust, boredom or despair. Any method that can create the
momentary state of gnosis is considered acceptable. Favorite
techniques frequently involve sex, pain, and confusion. Chaos
Magicians use sigils (magickal intentions that have been transformed
into symbolic structures), rituals from any source, the artefacts of
esoteric or popular culture to form a magickal space that might bring
about gnosis.
Chaos Magick is non-discriminatory and refutes dualism. Rooted in
the realization of the quantum flux and recognizing that ideas are not
reality (although they may influence the perception of reality) Chaos
Magick does not discriminate between White, Grey and Black Magick,
between evil and good, between right and wrong. Consequently Chaos
Magick is probably not for those who have not internalized a personal
moral or ethical code. In fact, most Chaos Magicians would probably
define themselves, if pressed, as Black Magicians but may, in this
self-definition, be referring to Magick that has to do with that which
is hidden, or in darkness, and so is black. Chaos Magick is neither for
the squeamish, nor for those who wish to argue points of ethics, nor
for those obsessed with establishing varieties of social order.
Ceremonial Magick and Wicca provide ample opportunities for those
who wish to do the latter. Chaos Magick is concerned with developing
magick that works, rituals that have specific effects, that create
change in conformity with the will of the chaos magician, that are
testable and can be replicated, that affect the Chaos Magician’s deep
self in sometimes catastrophic ways, that are non-judgmental, non-
hierarchical and devious.
Those who are interested in the practice of Chaos Magick are warned
that Chaos Magick can be destabilizing. Since it is designed to
deconstruct belief , dearly held opinions, the stories we tell
ourselves to lull ourselves into a sense of security will tend to fray
and unravel. Unless the magician is willing to forsake these old
ideas, to allow the boundaries of personal identity to be disrupted the
result of magickal action may be chaotic indeed. Dramatic life
changes, sometimes perceived as being for the worse, are a commonly
reported result of Chaos Magickal Rites. Fundamentally, Chaos Magick
is not about discovering one’s True Will, nor communing with the
Mother Goddess, nor even associating with demons, but with the
direct, startling apprehension of the Chaos current, the quantum flux
of an unhuman universe. Chaos Magick is magickal terrorism.
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Excerpts from Chaos: The Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism by
Hakim Bey
CHAOS: THE BROADSHEETS OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHISM
(Dedicated to Ustad Mahmud Ali Abd al-Khabir)
Chaos
CHAOS NEVER DIED. Primordial uncarved block, sole worshipful
monster, inert & spontaneous, more ultraviolet than any
mythology (like the shadows before Babylon), the original
undifferentiated oneness-of-being still radiates serene as
the black pennants of Assassins, random & perpetually
intoxicated.
Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's
neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass &
define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers
& phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own
facelessness, like clouds.
Everything in nature is perfectly real including
consciousness, there's absolutely nothing to worry about.
Not only have the chains of the Law been broken, they never
existed; demons never guarded the stars, the Empire never
got started, Eros never grew a beard.
No, listen, what happened was this: they lied to you, sold
you ideas of good & evil, gave you distrust of your body &
shame for your prophethood of chaos, invented words of
disgust for your molecular love, mesmerized you with
inattention, bored you with civilization & all its usurious
emotions.
There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path;
already you're the monarch of your own skin--your inviolable
freedom waits to be completed only by the love of other
monarchs: a politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of
sky.
To shed all the illusory rights & hesitations of history
demands the economy of some legendary Stone Age--shamans not
priests, bards not lords, hunters not police, gatherers of
paleolithic laziness, gentle as blood, going naked for a
sign or painted as birds, poised on the wave of explicit
presence, the clockless nowever.
Agents of chaos cast burning glances at anything or anyone
capable of bearing witness to their condition, their fever
of _lux_et_voluptas_. I am awake only in what I love &
desire to the point of terror--everything else is just
shrouded furniture, quotidian anaesthesia, shit-for-brains,
sub-reptilian ennui of totalitarian regimes, banal
censorship & useless pain.
Avatars of chaos act as spies, saboteurs, criminals of amour
fou, neither selfless nor selfish, accessible as children,
mannered as barbarians, chafed with obsessions, unemployed,
sensually deranged, wolfangels, mirrors for contemplation,
eyes like flowers, pirates of all signs & meanings.
Here we are crawling the cracks between walls of church
state school & factory, all the paranoid monoliths. Cut off
from the tribe by feral nostalgia we tunnel after lost
words, imaginary bombs.
The last possible _deed_ is that which defines perception
itself, an invisible golden cord that connects us: illegal
dancing in the courthouse corridors. If I were to kiss you
here they'd call it an act of terrorism--so let's take our
pistols to bed & wake up the city at midnight like drunken
bandits celebrating with a fusillade, the message of the
taste of chaos.
Chaos Myths
Unseen Chaos (po-te-kitea)
Unpossessed, Unpassing
Chaos of utter darkness
Untouched & untouchable
--Maori Chant
Chaos perches on a sky-mountain: a huge bird like a yellow
bag or red fireball, with six feet & four wings--has no face
but dances & sings.
Or Chaos is a black longhaired dog, blind & deaf, lacking
the five viscera.
Chaos the Abyss comes first, then Earth/Gaia, then
Desire/Eros. From these three proceed two pairs--Erebus &
old Night, Aether & Daylight.
Neither Being nor Non-being
neither air nor earth nor space:
what was enclosed? where? under whose
protection?
What was water, deep, unfathomable?
Neither death nor immortality, day nor night--
but ONE breathed by itself with no wind.
Nothing else. Darkness swathed in darkness,
unmanifest water.
The ONE, hidden by void,
felt the generation of heat, came into being
as Desire, first seed of Mind...
Was there an up or down?
There were casters of seed, there were powers:
energy underneath, impulse above.
But who knows for sure?
--_Rg_Veda_
Tiamat the Chaos-Ocean slowly drops from her womb Silt &
Slime, the Horizons, Sky and watery Wisdom. These offspring
grow noisy & bumptious--she considers their destruction.
But Marduk the wargod of Babylon rises in rebellion against
the Old Hag & her Chaos-monsters, chthonic totems--Worm,
Female Ogre, Great Lion, Mad Dog, Scorpion Man, Howling
Storm--dragons wearing their glory like gods--& Tiamat
herself a great sea-serpent.
Marduk accuses her of causing sons to rebel against fathers-
-she loves Mist & Cloud, principles of disorder. Marduk will
be the first to rule, to invent government. In battle he
slays Tiamat & from her body orders the material universe.
He inaugurates the Babylonian Empire--then from gibbets &
bloody entrails of Tiamat's incestuous son he creates the
human race to serve forever the comfort of gods--& their
high priests & anointed kings.
Father Zeus & the Olympians wage war against Mother Gaia &
the Titans, those partisans of Chaos, the old ways of
hunting & gathering, of aimless wandering, androgyny & the
license of beasts.
Amon-Ra (Being) sits alone in the primordial Chaos-Ocean of
NUN creating all the other gods by jerking off--but Chaos
also manifests as the dragon Apophis whom Ra must destroy
(along with his state of glory, his shadow & his magic) in
order that the Pharoah may safely rule--a victory ritually
re-created daily in Imperial temples to confound the enemies
of the State, of cosmic Order.
Chaos is Hun Tun, Emperor of the Center. One day the South
Sea, Emperor Shu, & the North Sea, Emperor Hu (_shu_hu_ =
lightning) paid a visit to Hun Tun, who always treated them
well. Wishing to repay his kindness they said, "All beings
have seven orifices for seeing, hearing, eating, shitting,
etc.--but poor old Hun Tun has none! Let's drill some into
him!" So they did--one orifice a day--till on the seventh
day, Chaos died.
But...Chaos is also an enormous chicken's egg. Inside it
P'an-Ku is born & grows for 18,000 years--at last the egg
opens up, splits into sky & earth, yang & yin. Now P'an-Ku
grows into a column that holds up the universe--or else he
_becomes_ the universe (breath-->wind, eyes-->sun & moon,
blood & humors-->rivers & seas, hair & lashes-->stars &
planets, sperm-->pearls, marrow-->jade, his fleas-->human
beings, etc.)
Or else he becomes the man/monster Yellow Emperor. Or else
he becomes Lao Tzu, prophet of Tao. In fact, poor old Hun
Tun is the Tao itself.
"Nature's music has no existence outside things. The various
apertures, pipes, flutes, all living beings together make up
nature. The "I" cannot produce things & things cannot
produce the "I," which is self-existent. Things are what
they are spontaneously, not caused by something else.
Everything is natural & does not know why it is so. The
10,000 things have 10,000 different states, all in motion as
if there were a True Lord to move them--but if we search for
evidence of this Lord we fail to find any." (Kuo Hsiang)
Every realized consciousness is an "emperor" whose sole form
of rule is to do nothing to disturb the spontaneity of
nature, the Tao. The "sage" is not Chaos itself, but rather
a loyal child of Chaos--one of P'an-Ku's fleas, a fragment
of flesh of Tiamat's monstrous son. "Heaven and Earth," says
Chuang Tzu, "were born at the same time I was, & the 10,000
things are one with me."
Ontological Anarchism tends to disagree only with the
Taoists' total quietism. In our world Chaos has been
overthrown by younger gods, moralists, phallocrats, banker-
priests, fit lords for serfs. If rebellion proves impossible
then at least a kind of clandestine spiritual jihad might be
launched. Let it follow the war-banners of the anarchist
black dragon, Tiamat, Hun Tun.
Chaos never died.
Sorcery
THE UNIVERSE WANTS TO PLAY. Those who refuse out of dry
spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their
humanity--those who refuse out of dull anguish, those who
hesitate, lose their chance at divinity--those who mold
themselves blind masks of Ideas & thrash around seeking some
proof of their own solidity end by seeing out of dead men's
eyes.
Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced
consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in
the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.
The incremental openings of perception gradually banish the
false selves, our cacophonous ghosts--the "black magic" of
envy & vendetta backfires because Desire cannot be forced.
Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the
_ludus_naturae_, sorcery begins.
No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or
make-believe shamanism, astral projection or the Satanic
Mass--if it's mumbo jumbo you want go for the real stuff,
banking, politics, social science--not that weak blavatskian
crap.
Sorcery works at creating around itself a psychic/physical
space or openings into a space of untrammeled expression--
the metamorphosis of quotidian place into angelic sphere.
This involves the manipulation of symbols (which are also
things) & of people (who are also symbolic)--the archetypes
supply a vocabulary for this process & therefore are treated
as if they were both real & unreal, like words. Imaginal
Yoga.
The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but
then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so
tangible. The dullard finds even wine tasteless but the
sorcerer can be intoxicated by the mere sight of water.
Quality of perception defines the world of intoxication--but
to sustain it & expand it to include _others_ demands
activity of a certain kind--sorcery.
Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural
Law, only the spontaneity of _natura_naturans_, the tao.
Sorcery violates laws which seek to chain this flow--
priests, kings, hierophants, mystics, scientists &
shopkeepers all brand the sorcerer _enemy_ for threatening
the power of their charade, the tensile strength of their
illusory web.
A poem can act as a spell & vice versa--but sorcery refuses
to be a metaphor for mere literature--it insists that
symbols must cause events as well as private epiphanies. It
is not a critique but a re-making. It rejects all
eschatology & metaphysics of removal, all bleary nostalgia &
strident futurismo, in favor of a paroxysm or seizure of
_presence_.
Incense & crystal, dagger & sword, wand, robes, rum, cigars,
candles, herbs like dried dreams--the virgin boy staring
into a bowl of ink--wine & ganja, meat, yantras & gestures--
rituals of pleasure, the garden of houris & sakis--the
sorcerer climbs these snakes & ladders to a moment which is
fully saturated with its own color, where mountains are
mountains & trees are trees, where the body becomes all
time, the beloved all space.
The tactics of ontological anarchism are rooted in this
secret Art--the goals of ontological anarchism appear in its
flowering. Chaos hexes its enemies & rewards its
devotees...this strange yellowing pamphlet, pseudonymous &
dust-stained, reveals all...send away for one split second
of eternity.
--NYC, May 1-July 4, 1984
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Definitions of Chaos Magick from the Alt.Magick.Chaos Newsgroup
the jugglers of Truth,
the molders of Beauty"
-- Hanafax from _The Knight of the Swords_ by Michael Moorcock
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"...if you want a one-line definition with which most Chaoists
would probably not disagree, then I offer the following.
Chaoists usually accept the meta-belief that belief is a tool
for achieving effects; it is not an end in itself."
--
Peter Carroll
January, 1992
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In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as
tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize this is to
face a terrible freedom in which Nothing is True and Everything is
Permitted, which is to say that everything is possible, there are
no certainties, and the consequences can be ghastly. Laughter
seems to be the only defence against the realisation that one does
not even have a real self.
So welcome to the Kali Yuga of the Pandaemonaeon wherein nothing is
true and everything is permissable. For in these post-absolutist
days it is better to build upon the shifting sands than the rock
which will confound you on the day it shatters. Philosophers have
become no more than the keepers of useful sarcasms, for the secret
is out that there is no secret of the universe. All is Chaos and
evolution is going nowhere in particular. It is pure chance which
rules the universe and thus, and only thus, is life good. We are
born accidentally into a random world where only seeming causes
lead to apparent effects, and very little is predetermined,
thank Chaos.
Reject then the obscenities of contrived uniformity, order and
purpose. Turn and face the tidal wave of Chaos from which
philosophers have been fleeing in terror for millennia. Leap in
and come out surfing its crest, sporting amidst the limitless
weirdness and mystery in all things, for those who reject false
certainties. Thank Chaos we shall never exhaust it.
Create, destroy, enjoy, IO CHAOS!
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From: pali151@netcom.com (Tzimon Yliaster)
It begins with knowing how near and how far Whatever is. Then you
concentrate on the placement of objects. Take neither nourishment,
nor stimulant nor any drug. Use pain, when it comes, as a sharp
wedge into the lower half.
Dance. Climb a mountain. Strip off your clothes (read civilization)
and break something cherished that owns you as you own it.
Avoid recruiters, and shoo away those who want to "teach you magick"
To paraphrase Austin Spare, all any teacher can do is show you your
own magnificence.
Examine your obsessions. What are they, really? Fuel. Burn them
up and move on. Don't let anything restrict you, least of all
"groups" (the shortest path to nowhere). Every group implies
hierarchy, whatever their press kits may say, and any structure is a
lessening of the degree of freedom. Chaos is the greatest degree of
freedom there can be, as it encompasses all potential and
possibility.
Turn your will against your fears and your insecurities. Bury
yourself. Hang upside-down and sing "Hallelujah" in public. People
will think you mad, but what's one more madman, and isn't madness
often little more than the folly of genius?
You *are* involved! Everything is involved, and it's really a
question of what the nature of your involvement will be.
Welcome;
I hope we haven't kept you waiting too long :=}
Try everything. Be ye manic!!! We are all our own set of variables,
and for each of us there are at least slightly different ways by
which we can shortcut cause-and-effect. The only secrets are the
ones that have to do with the ways that work for *you*, even if
others say you're wrong. All that matters is effectiveness, and
the only way to find these keys is to *do*. It takes time, and it
takes effort, and maybe even a little bit of your own substance;
think of it as an investment, if nothing more. It will, without
question, pay off.
But you have to start *now*... because a part of the set of variables
is time, and its a very limiting factor.
Lean way back, hold your breath, and count backwards from 418.
It's begun :=}
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From: locklin@phyast.pitt.edu (Lupo the Butcher)
"Chaos Theory" is generally concerned with making more complex
physical predictions, sometimes based on a "chaos/order"
measurement.
"Chaos Magick" may or may not be concerned with utelizing
paradigms of
"chaos theory" to exert change in accordance with ones telos
(in my case it would certainly be the former)...
"Chaos Magick" may also be the latest attempt to appeal to the
testosterone junkie set of the magickal community via their
lust of destruction, much as other LHP groups
(Satanists & sinister Pagans) do in other ways.
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THE TWELVE PRINCIPLES OF CHAOS
PINEAPPLE NUMBER ONE
THE CHAOS CURRENT MANIFESTS THROUGH THE ACTION OF INDIVIDUAL SORCERERS.
WHILE SORCERERS MAY COMBINE FOR SPECIFIC MAGICKAL PURPOSES, THE GOOD OF
THE ONE ALWAYS OUTWEIGHS THE GOOD OF THE MANY.
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PIEAPPLE NUMBER TWO
FOR OUR GROUP PURPOSE THERE IS NO ULTIMATE AUTHORITY, BUT WE RECOGNIZE
THAT THE TRUE CHAOTIC NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE MAY AT ANY TIME DEGRADE,
DIVIDE, AND DESTROY CAREFULLY DEVELOPED AND ORDERED GROUP PROJECTS.
WE HAVE NO LEADERS. EACH SORCERER IS ON THEIR OWN. GROUP OFFICES ARE
HELD EITHER RANDOMLY OR AS TRANSITORY PROJECTS MAY REQUIRE VOLUNTARY
PARTICIPATION. MEMBERS ATTAIN OFFICES BY DECLARATION. MEMBERS RELIN-
QUISH OFFICES BY DECLARATION, SINGLE COMBAT, OR DIVINE ACT.
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PINECONE NUMBER THREE
THE ONLY REQUIREMENT FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE GROUP IS THE LAPSE OF SANITY
REQUIRED TO WANT TO BE A MEMBER OF A SORCEROUS ORGANIZATION AND THE
WILL TO PRACTICE STRANGE DARK RITES. HOWEVER MEMBERS WHO DO NOT WISH TO
PRACTICE ARE CHEERFULLY ADMITTED AS SACRIFICIAL VICTIMS.
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PRIMEHOLE NUMBER FOUR
ANYBODY CAN ESTABLISH A (Z) CLUSTER/TEMPLE AND AFFILIATE IT WITH THE
MOTHERSHIP OR NOT AS WHIM OR AS DIVINATION BY THE FLIGHT OF SEA BIRDS
INDICATES.
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PRIMECHIMP NUMBER 5
EACH GROUP OR MEMBER HAS BUT ONE PRIMARY PURPOSE. BUT WE HAVE FORGOTTEN
WHAT THAT IS, SO EACH MEMBER OR GROUP WILL HAVE TO DECIDE THAT FOR THEM-
SELVES, IF DEEMED AN IMPORTANT ENOUGH QUESTION.
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PRIMERIB NUMERO SIX
NO MEMBER OR (Z) CLUSTER GROUP CAN CLAIM TO SPEAK FOR THEIR GROUP OR THE (Z)
CLUSTER AS A WHOLE, EVEN WITH THE APPROVAL OF SAID MEMBERS. ANY STATE-
MENTS TO THE CONTRARY ARE DAMNED LIES PROPOGATED BY ASS KISSING FLUNKEYS OF
THE DEMON CHORONZON.
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PRINGLECHIP NOMBRE SEPT
MEMBERS OR (Z)CLUSTER GROUPS CAN FUND THEIR MAGICKAL ACTIVITIES ANY WAY
THEY CHOOSE. HOWEVER SPECIAL ACCOLADES ARE AWARDED MEMBERS WHO CAN
PERSUADE NON MAGICIANS TO SUPPORT THEM. BEGGING FROM OTHER SORCERERS IS
CONSIDERED BAD FORM.
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PRINCHESSA # OCTO
THE (Z) CLUSTER, MOTHERSHIP, GROUPS AND TEMPLES ARE PROFESSIONAL
MAGICIANS. THEY CAN ORGANIZE THEMSELVES FOR PROFIT, HIRE EMPLOYEES
OR GATHER SLAVES AS THEY SEE FIT. THEY MAY ALSO LIVE IN SQUALID, BONE-
CRUSHING POVERTY.
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PRECIPITANT NONUS
THE MOTHERSHIP, (Z) CLUSTER GROUPS AND MEMBERS ARE WHOLLY DISORGANIZED.
ANY APPEARANCE OF ORGANIZATION IS A DELUSION VISITED UPON MEMBERS BY
SORCEROUS ATTACKS FROM THE LORDS OF ORDER.
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POLICY DIX
SINCE THE Z MOTHERSHIP, ITS CLUSTERS, AND MEMBERS ARE ARTIFICIAL
CONSTRUCTS IN TEMPORARY, TRANSIENT MANIFESTATION, PUBLIC
STATEMENTS ABOUT THE Z CLUSTER, INCLUDING THESE, ARE PATHOLOGICAL
LIES DESIGNED TO MANIPULATE THE MEDIA OR THE SHEEPLIKE MASSES.
MEMBERS ARE URGED TO PROMPTLY DISAVOW PUBLIC STATEMENTS MADE
BY SELF-AGGRANDIZING EGOIST MEMBERS SEEKING ATTENTION.THE Z CLUSTER,
ITS MEMBERS, AND THE MOTHERSHIP ARE GENERALLY OPINIONATED ASSHOLES,
HAPPY TO ISSUE DOGMATIC ANNOUNCEMENTS ON ANY SUBJECT WHATSOEVER.
POINTS ARE GIVEN TO THOSE WHO CAN STATE CLEARLY NONSENSICAL POSITIONS
WITH ARDOR AND AUTHORITY.
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PRINCEPS ONZE
THE PUBLIC RELATIONS POLICY OF THE Z CLUSTER IS BASED ON UNASHAMED
PROMOTION, SINCE ANYONE CAN JOIN THE Z CLUSTER BY A SIMPLE DECLARATION
(THE LETTER “Z” SHOULD SUFFICE), IT IS INCUMBENT UPON MEMBERS TO PUBLICIZE
THE Z CLUSTER AND ITS MAGNIFICENT JOB IN SUPPORTING THE CHAOS CURRENT AS
OFTEN AND IN AS PUBLIC A WAY AS POSSIBLE.
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PRINCIPLE TWELVE
SINCE WE CAME FROM CHAOS AND TO CHAOS WE SHALL RETURN WE TAKE AS A
RECEIVED TRUTH THAT OUR SQUALID LITTLE EGOS, AND OUR PETTY BACK BITING
ARGUMENTS WILL NOT SURVIVE THE TRANSITION TO RANDOMNESS. CONSEQUENTLY
MEMBERS ARE URGED TO RECOGNIZE THIS FACT AND EITHER ACT LIKE ETHICAL
HUMAN BEINGS, OR AS VICIOUS PRIMA DONNAS GETTING AS MUCH MILEAGE OUT OF
THEIR SELF-CENTERED PERSONALITIES AS THEY CAN IN THEIR THANKFULLY BRIEF
LIVES.
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THE Z MANIFESTO
The Z(cluster) is a group of chaos magicians who have temporarily
aggregated for the purpose of cracking the universal consensual belief
structure and thus bringing about the end of the world. Originating in
a cluster of New Orleans sorcerers who are artists, musicians and
writers, mostly gay, with a strong contingent from the leather
community, the Z(cluster) is an attempt to configure a new form of
organization, one that is non-hierarchichal, non-dogmatic, inclusive,
anarchistic, and flexible. The Z(cluster) is open to all. Membership
requires a simple declaration. There are no dues. There are no grades.
There are no leaders. There is no received truth. Opinions of
Z(cluster) members, including these statements, are personal and
non-binding and may be adopted or discarded by members as whim or
analytic thought provides.
The first node of the Z(cluster), the New Orleans group, has decided
transiently to call itself T(word)A(word)Z(word). Other groups or
individuals that wish to align themselves with the first node may do
so by naming themselves anything that includes a word that begins
with Z. Readers of this document are now cautioned that this
terminology is a viral meme.
Z(cluster) members and nodes may or may not offer the following to
each other:
Group ritual. Results testing. Journalling. Lectures, articles,
poems. Spells. Floggings. Sex. T-shirts. Magickal conspiracies.
Discount books on sorcery. Occult combat. Jewelry. Training in yoga,
martial arts, and small arms. Ceramics. Emotional support. Cynical
revilement. Custom leather and art to wear. Music. Noise.
Membership in a food co-op. Computer expertise. Participation in
performance art pieces. Other services, interactions, and products too
numerous to list.
In New Orleans, the Temple Azathoth Zygoats meets about every two
weeks.
While the New Orleans node offers itself, for the time being, as a
clearinghouse for projects by and information about the Z(cluster),
membership in the cluster does not require contacting the
T(word)A(word)Z(word). If you do wish to contact us, the address
follows:
Internet: defrat@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu
marik@aol.com
Copyright Notice
Products issuing from the Z(cluster) are copyright free, as long as
individual members do not state otherwise (incurring, if they do,
group revilement). Copy our products, hack our programs, rip off our
designs. You pay the karmic debt (if that’s your paradigm). We might
subject you to sorcerous attack, but we will not sue you.
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Questions and Answers on the Z(Cluster)
1. What is the Z(Cluster)?
The Z(Cluster) is a chaos infection, spreading through the internet,
and lodging in the damaged neocorteces of chaos magicians foolish
enough to believe that magick can be performed through the recycled
electrons of the world wide data web.
2. O.K. I’m damaged enough. How can I join?
Joining the Z(Cluster) requires a simple declaration. Actually getting
anything out of it requires telling marik@aol.com that you are a
member. Since the Z(Cluster) is also a clearinghouse for chaos related
messages, rituals, and documents, getting on marik's list is a prereq-
uisite for mailings.
3. Who belongs to the Z(Cluster)?
As of 6/21/95 there are three known nodes of the cluster: Terminated
Amber Zepellins in New Orleans, or TAZ, a group with between 12 and
15 members who meet once every two weeks; the ZMA in Norway, a
node hosted by Martin Knutsen; Yellow(Z) in San Francisco,hosted
by dagaz@netcom.com. There may be others, developed by magicians
who have expressed interest but choose not to notify the TAZ
and others that were active but are now moribund.
4. What does the Z(Cluster) have to offer?
The Z(Cluster) offers ongoing series of online rituals, rooted
generally in group or individual work performed by nodes. An example
of this was the recent Zerbat Satellite Rite on Mardi Gras day. The
TAZ group in New Orleans also offers a number of other services, a
description of which may be found in the ZManifesto file, available
from marik@aol.com.
5. Who is Hakim Bey and what does he have to do with the Z(Cluster)?
We don’t really know who Hakim Bey is, except that he’s a weedy kind
of guy who probably smokes too much pot, and whose voice can be
heard on a great Bill Lazwell CD called “TAZ”. Bey wrote “Chaos-the
Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchy”, a clever attempt to integrate
sorcery with art, science, and agitprop.
There is some evidence to suggest that Hakim Bey, discovering himself
perilously close to being mediated, has committed ritual suicide,
although this is not to say that the man who presented himself publicly
as Hakim Bey is not alive and kicking.
The Z(Cluster) is an organization using theories of social dynamics
developed by Bey. Bey’s theory of the Temporary Autonomous Zone, an
ephemeral niche within the body politic in which freedom can be
experienced, forms the template for the Z(Cluster). In its essence the
TAZ attempts to replicate the social dynamics of a dinner party
between close friends. The food is good, the conversation bracing,
and we all take turns cooking and cleaning up.
6. What files does marik have?
Marik offers the following files:
ZManifesto: the founding document of the TAZ group, and the 12
Principles of Chaos.
Chao.txt: Mark Chao’s useful Introduction to Chaos Magick
TAZ.txt: the full text of Hakim Bey’s book, includes Chaos the
Broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism.
PAZ.txt Revisionist thought from the father of the TAZ
Satellite.txt: the Mardi Gras Zerbat Satellite Rite, including the
Press Release,and other goodies.
Introducing Chaos.txt A Compendium containing much of the above
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About the Editor
This document was edited, and partially written, by marik (Mark
Defrates).
Marik is a chaos magician and sacred jeweler practising his crafts in
New Orleans.
More information is available by e-mailing him marik@aol.com.